"Chance is the only source of true novelty."

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Source : Life Itself (p. 82)

Francis Crick

#Life Quotes #Novelty Quotes #Chance Quotes

“My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.”

Source : "Hitler's Beneficiaries. How the Nazis Bought the German People". Book by Götz Aly, pp. 16-17, 2007.
“The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality transparency.”
“Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.”
“Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.”

Source : Louis Althusser (1976). “Essays in self-criticism”, NLB ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
“My biggest concern is security and keeping Londoners safe.”
“Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn't a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called 'enlightened' society.”
“I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, We, the People? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the People, instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of the confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one of great consolidated National Government of the people of all the States.”
“The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants.”

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